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WS #3 Logistic

The document contains a worksheet for AP Calculus BC focusing on logistic differential equations and their applications. It includes various problems related to population modeling, rumor spreading, and the use of Euler's method for approximating solutions. Each problem requires finding limits, growth rates, slopes at points of inflection, and solving differential equations.

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WS #3 Logistic

The document contains a worksheet for AP Calculus BC focusing on logistic differential equations and their applications. It includes various problems related to population modeling, rumor spreading, and the use of Euler's method for approximating solutions. Each problem requires finding limits, growth rates, slopes at points of inflection, and solving differential equations.

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AP Calc BC Unit 9 WS#3 Logistic and other practice Name________________________

dt =
1. A population is modeled by a function P that satisfies the logistic differential equation dP P
2 ( 3 − 20P )
where the initial population P(0)=20 and t is the time in years.
a. What is lim P(t) ?
t →

b. For what values of P is the population growing the fastest?

c. Find the slope of the graph of P at the point of inflection.

2. The population P(t) of a species satisfies the logistic differential equation dP = 3P − 0.0006P2 , where
dt
the initial population is P(0)=1000 and t is the time in years. What is lim P(t)
t →

3. A healthy population P(t) of animals satisfies the logistic differential equation dP


dt = 5P (1− P
240 )
(t is the time in years). For what value of P is the population growing the fastest if the initial population
is A) P(0)=100 B) P(0)=150?

4. A population is modeled by a function of P that satisfies the logistic differential equation


dP
dt = P
5 (1− 150P ) , where the initial population is P(0)=50 and t is the time in years. What is the slope of
the graph of P at the point of inflection?

dy
5. A certain rumor spreads in a small town at the rate dt = y(1− 3y) , where y is the fraction of the
population that has heard the rumor at any time t. What fraction of the population has heard the
rumor when it is spreading the fastest?

dy
6. Let y=f(x) be the solution to the differential equation dx = 1+ 2x − y with the initial condition f(1)=2.
What is the approximation for f(2) if Euler’s method is used, starting at x=1 with a step size of ½?

X -1 -0.6 -0.2 0.2 0.6


f (x) 1 2 -0.5 -1.5 1.2
7. The table above gives selected values for the derivative of a function f on the interval -1≤x≤0.6.
If f(-1)=1.5 and Euler’s method is used to approximate f(0.6) with step size of 0.8, what is the resulting
approximation?
dy
8. Solve dt = 0.3y(4 − y) given that y(0)=1.

dy
9. Let y(t) be a solution of dt = 0.5y(1− 0.5y) such that y(0) = 4. Determine lim y(t) without finding y
t →

explicitly.

10. Let y(t) be a solution of the logistic equation dy


dt (
= ky 1− y
A ).
a. Differentiate with respect to t.

b. Identify and justify the intervals for which y(t) is concave up and concave down.

Find the general solution.

dy
11. y = 2(4 − y) 12. 2 dx + 6y + 4 = 0

dy
13. 1− x y = xy
2
14. dx = x sec y

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